Industry and Innovation

Programme Brief

The UK is a hotbed of great innovators and products which
can simultaneously improve patient outcomes, generate savings and improve Value for Money (VFM) for the NHS, economic growth and high tech jobs. We work closely with clinical or commercial innovators and SMEs to help realise
these three opportunities...

The UK is a hotbed of great innovators and products which
can simultaneously improve patient outcomes, generate savings and improve Value for Money (VFM) for the NHS, economic growth and high tech jobs.

We work closely with clinical or commercial innovators and SMEs to help realise
these three opportunities simultaneously.

Some of the innovators we work with are clinicians
themselves – GPs, Consultants, Nurses, Pharmacists etc. Some come from other
fields. All share a passion for improving the way things are done.

We welcome innovators at any stage of their journey, from
back-of-an-envelope, through to licensed products with existing NHS sales. We
have a range of services and offerings, broadly aligning to the Innovation
Pathway, and we have a track record of helping innovators to help
patients.

There is some conceptual flow to the services we offer - it
is possible to progress from one to the other, but that’s not a requirement or
even an expectation. It’s a ‘pick-n-mix’ of what’s needed.

And all of this is currently free to companies, supported by our local members, NHS England, the Office for Life Science, and a grant from the European Structural Integration Fund (ESIF) to speed the rate at which patients get better treatment and the NHS gets
better value, and to grow the UK Health Sector economy.